Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-04-24
APT. HENRY S. BROWN.
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81 lCent6in Henry , brOWnJ an early anu
81 In known pioneer of Texas, was born
81 Madison county, Ky, on the 6th of
Itch. 1873, the son of Colet Brown, who
3 j. horn in Maryland in 1859, and died
s kentucky in 1887, and he son Of Col
e Ii Edward Brown, revolutionary Of
Il ~ who vss corn in Maryland in 1874,
u died in Madison county, Ky, IL 1928.
H. immediate parents and ancestors
81 -sayaraI generations had been respects
cfffz. rs Of Baltimore and Carroll
& g,-nfi-s. Maryland. They were, without
= lvrenti0n. sterling patriots IN TIE rev.
& - Of 1875, both BIS patterns! and
&t-..-raI -raudfathers having been Off
tsr. ia that struggle.
NfT.fs.0 when IN his seventeenth year,
81 H.. spirit IF adventure, which was such
marked characteristic in his
g L. life, seized our TUuug nero, e0d led
r. friendless and alone, 10 the Wiids Of
sSlis..nri, in which territory be took up
shoEe II S. Charles county, If which
y r-ss sitter wards sheriff. Ia the war Of
.r7-I5. beiag bat twenty years of age,
E. rr1uptcered and served in the extreme
-, soainst the Indians till It's close. At
En- Clark NOW PeOria), on the Illinois
p UDdrr the immediate eye Of his
r,ereI lWu-ick), and Governor Howard
& u Missouri. be performed an gct OF gal
F. 6nrlrg tae siege Of large Iudian
e w1lch caused those off ecs 10 com
s. .r;rner5 him bE name in their reports to
a. Secretary of War.
81 Tr1s14 Henry S. Brown married Mrs.
7rsrgsret Jones, nee Miss Margaret Kerr,
s widow with q son and two daughters.
IT7a son, Judge Maryland Jones, is yet
Iss7D living in his eighty-sixtb year, at
navfne. Medina county, Texas; and the
roungest daughter, Mrs. Mary X. Draper,
& = b-r saventv-ninth year, resides st Os-
yego, Kan; the other daughter, Mrs.
sarah Jordan, died in LavsCa county,
Texas, in 1863.
an lsIgI2O, Captain Brown moved to
Pike county, Missouri, having two sons,
P7f7a f and Thomas Jefferson, born in
s. Charles. In Pike county his two
vounpest children were born, J Ohm Henry
Brown and Margaret, who died the wife
Of Russell Jones, in 1859, in Gonzales
county, Texas.
From 1915 to 1924 Captain Brown was
scoDstsntly engaged in tradi, z from Mis-
+ souri, to New Orleans and the lower
country by means of fat and keel boats on
the Mississippi river. These nine years
. Of 1is checkered life were atteaded with
many thrilling adventures and wonderful
escapades In this hazardous business
he was long successful, brt in 1923 and
4ISZ4 MS losses by wrecks, "hJOd and
fire" and financial depression in the
south were disastrous.
Tn December, 1924, he landed at the
mouth If the BrazOs river, Texas, having
an outfit of goods for the Inuian and Mex
5icln trade. He was accompanied
#bv younger brother, John,
afterwards known as "WaCO Brown"
Captain Brown in person fitted out
caravan and proceeded to Monterey,
Mexico, at the same time sending his
& brother, with three men and q supply Of
goods to trade with the COmsuChe In
dams for horses and mules, buffalo
robes, etc Mr.. John Brown proceeded
10 the Clear Forks of the BTaz rs, traded
+ OF his merchandise to the Indians for
over s thousand head of horses and
mules and a large number of buffalo
robes He mad safely returned IS far as
1.-THE BOsQue creek, when his camp was sur
4prsed and attacked by party of Waco In
diSus at night and everything captured.
s His three companions, Thomas jane
son, James Musick and Andrew Scott,
ESCAPED on foot and eventuslly, after
I I'M d suffering, reached the Settlements
on the Lower Braz0s. Mr.. Brown, who
Wss q confirmed cripple in one leg,
seCreted himself for the moment, sup
posing his companions would do the
.same, but when daylight came he found
Hhimselt alone. After travelling IS best
he could for day or two, be was taken
prisoner oy a party of Waco Indians, and
Ib7 them kept for about fifteen months in
their fsvOrite region, of which the pres
ent city Of Waco was he site of one OF
The principal villages. He was captured
in July or August, 1925, and by his stay
among the Indians acquired g vast amount
3 Of information about the Waco and other
gri5es which proved TO be of great value
10 General Austin and the early settlers.
OlreaChine the settlements Mr.. Browns
comrades expressed the confident belief
that ne was killed at the time the camp
was attacked, from the fact that he fell
over them as they were awakened; an
incident explained by him after his es-
cape
In the meantime, Captain Henry S.
Brown carried aud sold to advantage his
Mexican goods in MoncIovs and Monte
Tey. On returning to the Brazos and
learning these facts he immediately
raised and fitted out company of forty
two men, who volunteered to accom-
pany him in search of his brother
lie penetrated far up the country,
found the indians hostile at the intrusion
sBd had several encounters with them,
,.. 4g.vL+ ct -1o q
| the Waco village, where the city of the
1 same name now stands. In this engage
ment he drove the whole force iuto and
across the river, killing 8 considerable
number on the banks and bluff, ard nine
n the river. A. that time his brother
was held in another village only TWO
. miles above, but on the opposite or east
nauk, out was hurried away in advance
Of the retreating Indians. The eXpedI-
ton now returned, convinced OF the fate
OF Mr.. John Brown.
Securing new supplies in New Orleans,
Captain Brown made his second adven-
ture in Mexico. from which he returned
10 San Felipe on the Braz0s late in the
summe' of 1926, with 8 large herd Of
horses, mules and silver bullion auC
s well mounted and armed party
Of American and Mexican rancherOs
While there his brother John il
the garO Of an Indian, suddenly appeared
having made his escape the previOu.
night from msrauding party of seven
teen Waco Indians on Cummings creek,
now in FaYette county; the Indians hav
ing come down to rob and kill the settlers
Captain Brown, with his own party and s
few volunteer citizens, made a forced
march. and at daylight on the following
morning surprised the Indians, killing
sixteen of the seventeen comprising the
party, only one escaping.
From that time on till 1888 Captain
Henry S. Brown continued in the Next
can trade, making his headquarters a
4 Brszoria, Gonzales and San Antonio
i During this time he was frequently EN-
1 nlOvad in COMMANDING exneditiOns apsinS